Afghan President Hamid Karzai say he would back the opening of a Taliban liaison office in Qatar if it would help towards peace.

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Karzai backs Taliban Qatar plan

The Karzai administration has chosen not to renew the tenure of the outspoken advocate Ahmad Nader Nadery at a national human rights commission.

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Afghan Rights Activist Nadery Ousted From Panel

Karzai says she can marry whomever she wants.

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Afghan Woman Won’t Wed Rapist

KABUL — A four-day gathering of Afghan leaders ended Saturday with delegates backing President Hamid Karzai’s desire for a long-term security partnership with the United States that would not allow U.S. troops to conduct night raids or search Afghan homes. The resolution that emerged from the assembly, known as a loya jirga , called for Afghanistan to negotiate a strategic partnership that places strict limits on U.S. troops who might remain in the country after 2014, when Afghan forces are expected to take charge of providing security. Read full article > >

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Afghan loya jirga backs Karzai’s security plans

KABUL — The Afghan government will convene more than 2,000 Afghans from across the country this week to debate the country’s future relationship with the United States , a gathering that has drawn criticism from a skeptical political opposition that describes the process as antiquated and illegitimate. Read full article > >

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Karzai to convene loya jirga, a meeting of Afghans, on U.S. relationship

WASHINGTON — The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan has fired a senior officer from his job as the No. 2 general in charge of training for making inappropriate public remarks about Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his government. Gen. John Allen issued a statement Friday saying that Maj. Gen. Peter Fuller has been relieved of his duties as deputy commander for the Afghan training mission. Read full article > >

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US general fired from Afghan training job for critical remarks about Karzai government

In a hypothetical war, Karzai says.

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Afghans Would Back Pakistan Over U.S.

KABUL — A microbiology professor at Kabul University, a fourth-year medical student and a security guard at the presidential palace were among six people arrested in an alleged plot to assassinate President Hamid Karzai, Afghan officials said Wednesday. The spokesman for Afghanistan’s intelligence agency said at a news conference that the plotters had confessed to working with two Arabs, operating out of Pakistan’s tribal region, who were allied with al-Qaeda and another insurgent group linked to the Taliban. Lutfullah Mashal said the “dangerous and educated group” planned to have the palace guard kill Karzai on one of his trips to the provinces. Read full article > >

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Plot to kill Afghan President Karzai foiled

Afghan intelligence officials say they have arrested six people linked to the militant Haqqani network who were plotting to kill President Hamid Karzai.

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Afghans ‘foil Karzai death plot’

KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan intelligence officials say they have foiled an assassination attempt on President Hamid Karzai, arresting six people in Kabul who they say are affiliated with al-Qaida and the Haqqani militant group. Intelligence service spokesman Latifullah Mashal said Wednesday that those arrested included one of Karzai’s body guards, three college students and a university professor. He says the group was recruited by two Arab nationals based in Pakistan. Read full article > >

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Afghan intelligence officials say assassination plot against Karzai foiled, 6 Afghans arrested

Even as many senior Afghan officials echoed President Hamid Karzai, closer to the ground, local leaders and ordinary people expressed fears of civil war.

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Karzai Welcomes Withdrawal, but Many Afghans Are Wary

A NATO-led airstrike in Afghanistan that targeted insurgents Saturday is now under investigation for reportedly killing 12 children and two women, and Afgan President Hamid Karzai issued a strong rebute to the alliance. Calling it his “last warning,” a…

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NATO Bombing Under Investigation

KABUL – At least three dozen Afghan police and civilians have been killed in two separate airstrikes by NATO-led forces in Afghanistan, Afghan officials said Sunday. A NATO military spokesman in Kabul said the coalition was aware of both incidents and had begun investigations. The reported deaths of 14 civilians in an area of southern Helmand on Saturday, and 22 police plus other civilians in northeastern Nurestan on Wednesday will likely add to the long-running tension between Kabul and its Western allies about civilian casualties caused by the foreign forces. President Hamid Karzai on Saturday called for the end of all unilateral NATO military operations and night raids by foreign Special Operations troops . Karzai’s office issued a statement Sunday in which the president strongly condemned the civilian deaths in Helmand, which he said were caused by American troops. Read full article > >

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Civilian casualties alleged in Afghanistan

Afghan president Hamid Karzai says his people became victims in the hunt for Bin Laden.

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KABUL, Afghanistan — On the first day of its promised spring offensive, the Taliban used a 12-year-old boy as a suicide bomber in an attack Sunday that killed four civilians, President Hamid Karzai said, calling the child’s recruitment inhumane and un-Islamic.

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Taliban use child bomber in attack on first day of spring offensive, Afghan president says